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The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...
Indiana. Ontario. Pennsylvania. Date apprehended. November 17, 1894. Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that ...
This is a list of United States post office murals, produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943 through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury. The principal objective of the United States post office murals was to secure artwork that met high artistic standards [ 1 ] for public buildings ...
The Chicago Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois was constructed between 1898 and 1905 for the purpose of housing the Midwest 's federal courts, main post office, and other government bureaus. It stood in The Loop neighborhood on a block bounded by Dearborn, Adams and Clark Streets and Jackson Boulevard. The site held an 1880 post office ...
English: The U. S. Post Office of the Englewood neighborhood, 611 West 63rd Street, Chicago, IL 60621, partially overlapping the site of H. H. Holmes' Murder Castle demolished in 1938 (the plot of the left section of the current building and further to the left).
A a post office was first established in Chicago on March 8, 1831, with Johnathan N. Baily, a fur trader, being appointed Chicago's first postmaster.. Chicago was long the hub of the Railway Mail Service of the United States.
The Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers was a proposed mixed use supertall skyscraper planned as part of the canceled Old Chicago Main Post Office Redevelopment project in the Chicago Loop community area. The 120-story twin towers were planned to reach a height of 2,000 feet (610 m), the same as the cancelled Chicago Spire that began ...
1921 Old Chicago Main Post Office, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White 1922 Tribune Tower , neo-Gothic , John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood Tribune Tower (1922) 1924 Soldier Field , Holabird & Roche ; extensive renovation 2003, Ben Wood and Carlos Zapata